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Architecture

Field Description

Architectural science (M.S.). Students with an undergraduate degree in architecture, architectural engineering, engineering, or computer science are likely candidates for the graduate program in architectural science. Program objectives are (1) to afford an opportunity for students of architecture to expand their creative design potential by increasing their knowledge and understanding of environmental science and building technologies and (2) to provide a framework within which students who have graduated from other technical disciplines may explore computer science, computer graphics, and computer-aided design methods. Students enrolling for studies in computer graphics use the facilities of the interdisciplinary Program of Computer Graphics.

Ordinarily four terms of residence are required to complete the program of study, depending on the student's background and experience. 


History of architecture and urban development (M.A., Ph.D.). The HAUD program at Cornell offers a doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.), and represents a sophisticated blend of interdisciplinary research and new scholarship. The program prepares students for a scholarly career in global architectural history conceived as a distinct and evolving discipline with a diverse range of topics and methodologies. HAUD students are able to engage in original research that advances and changes the discipline, and impart that knowledge to undergraduate and graduate students. The structure and degree requirements of the program prepare students as erudite and independent scholars who can critically assess and contribute to the state of global and inclusive architectural history.  Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in architecture, archaeology, history, history of art, or anthropology, or appropriate experience in the field. Ph.D. degree candidates in the history of architecture or urban development programs are required to have reading proficiency in at least one modern language other than English.

Contact Information

Website: https://aap.cornell.edu/academics/architecture
Email: arch-grad-info@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-9945

139 East Sibley Hall
921 University Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14853-6701

 

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Subject and Degrees

Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]

Advanced Urban Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]

Architectural Science

Architectural Science - Matter Design Computation

History of Architecture and Urban Development

Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P]

Concentrations by Subject

Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]

  • advanced architectural design
  • theory and criticism of architecture (minor)
  • urban design (minor)

Advanced Urban Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]

  • advanced urban design

Architectural Science

  • building technology and environmental science (minor)
  • computer graphics

Architectural Science - Matter Design Computation

  • matter design computation

History of Architecture and Urban Development

  • history of architecture
  • history of urban development

Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P]

  • architecture

Faculty

Esra Akcan

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: global history of architecture and cities; postcolonial and critical theory; social justice; multispecies migration; human and more-than-human rights;climate history; public housing; urban renewal; translation; reparations; Middle East; Central and Southeast Europe; Northeast Africa

Sean S Anderson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Global Modernisms; Architecture and its intersection with humanitarian discourses including human rights and border studies; Histories of technology in architecture and art; Architecture, social equity and community building; Architecture and art curation; Experimental spatial practices; South and Southeast Asian and African architecture and art.

Jennifer Birkeland

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Urban infrastructure in relation to environmental & culturally sustainable systems, landscape/ building, climate change. Fabrication & material research: advance assembly concepts, material science, plant life support.

Thomas J. Campanella

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: residential redevelopment, neighborhood change, gentrification, suburban development/redevelopment

Jose Manuel Castillo

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science; History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Architectural design, Architectural practice, Cities, Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanism, Food & cities, Housing, Urban design & planning

Lily H Chi

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: architectural design; theory and criticism; theories of architectural representation; history of architectural theory; seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France

Mark R Cruvellier

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]: advanced architectural design; Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P]: architecture; Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science; computer graphics; History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: building technology and environmental science; architectural science and design; structures -- tall buildings, bridges; computer visualization of structural behavior

Luben D. Dimcheff

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science - Matter Design Computation: matter design computation
  • Research Interests: interdisciplinary design practices; analytical representation, generative visualization and creative processes

Timur Kamil Dogan

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: performance driven design workflows and metrics; design computation; urban an building level energy modeling; daylighting; building technology and env. science

John R Elliott

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Sustainable interior design; sustainable product design; eco-design theory

Maria Gonzalez Pendas

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Architectural history; Architectural theory; History of sciences, and technology; Labor histories, building practices and material epistemologies; Modernity/coloniality, decolonial studies and architecture after empire; 20th century Iberia, Latin America and Colonial Africa; Mestizo modernities; Politics of religion and secularity; Global fascism; Critical theory and ideology critique; Architectural writing and historiography; Public and civically-engaged humanities and design.

Maria Goula

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Coastal resiliency, representations and design theories of coastal landscapes and waterfronts. Performance and dynamics of rural fallow landscapes. Design criticality of contemporary built landscape and architecture.

Marta H. Wisniewska

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Material Research: Innovative, regenerative and healthy materials for unique and context specific applications, Building Technology: promoting local resources and processes that maximize worker and end-user health while minimizing harmful impacts on the planet, Urban and Rural community-centered transformations in Emerging Territories.

Felix Korbinian Heisel

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: the circular economy in the built environment; new design and construction methods for circular buildings; survey, assessment and activation of the urban mine; closed-loop material practices; and circular business models

Martin Hogue

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: intersection between architecture, landscape and conceptual art; design representation; landscape, cities and film; site histories; camping, travel and tourism; fieldwork and field documentation methods.

Michael Nicholas Jefferson

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Architectural typology, design methodology, shape grammars, systems of bias and influence present in design tools and methods

Saleh Kalantari

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Evidence-based Design; Virtual Reality; Wayfinding; Cognitive Agent Modeling; Spatial Cognition.

Pamela Karimi

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Architectural history; Architectural theory; Collaborative practice, Ecological practice; Participatory and collaborative planning; Sustainability; Architecture and environmental issues; Gender equality and spatial justice; Post-industrial cities; Middle East and North African Studies; Iranian Studies; Artistic practices in modern and contemporary Iran and Iranian diaspora

Katharina Maria Kral

  • Campus: Ithaca - (Divisional Member)
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Residential architecture, advanced timber construction, health and well-being in buildings, holistic building performance evaluation including structural optimization and carbon footprint assessment.

D Medina Lasansky

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Northern Mediterranean architecture and urbanism; nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture; relationship between popular culture and architecture

Jesse W. LeCavalier

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: History of Architecture and Urban Development: history of architecture; history of urban development
  • Research Interests: Architecture and logistics, Urbanism and logistics, infrastructure, representation, research methodologies in architecture and urbanism

Suzanne Theresa Lettieri

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Advanced Architectural Design (Post-Professional) [Administered by A.A.P]: advanced architectural design; theory and criticism of architecture; urban design; Master of Architecture [Administered by A.A.P]: architecture
  • Research Interests: Social equity and the built environment. Early learning and experimental pedagogy. Urban infrastructure in relation to environmental & culturally sustainable systems, landscape/building, climate change.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: computer graphics
  • Research Interests: Urban Technologies; Urbanism; Cities; Computation and New Media; Critical Spatial Practice

Jennifer Newsom

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: architectural design, architectural representation, contemporary architectural theory, Black spatial practices.

Caroline Ann O'Donnell

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Ecological design; Non-linear materiality; Legibility/Perception

Peter Dwayne Robinson

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Architecture; Urban design; Community Engagement; Participatory Design; Youth Engagement; Design Strategy; Urbanism

Andrea Lee Simitch

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: architectural design; urban design; visual representation; exhibition design and curation; architectural publication

Val Kevin Warke

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: architectural design; theory of architecture; urban design

Anne Loftin Weber

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science

J. Meejin Yoon

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Architectural design; Design technology

Sasa Zivkovic

  • Campus: Ithaca
  • Concentrations: Architectural Science: building technology and environmental science
  • Research Interests: Architecture, Design, Digital Fabrication, Robotic Fabrication, 3D Printing, Advanced Building Construction